bró

See also: bro, Bro, bro., -bro, and бро

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish bró, from Old Irish brao, from Proto-Celtic *brawū (“millstone”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂wō (“heavy stone”), from *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠɾˠɔː/

Noun

bró f (genitive singular bró, nominative plural brónna)

1. quern, millstone

Declension

Standard declension:

Declension of bró (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bró brónna vocative a bhró a bhrónna genitive bró brónna dative bró brónna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhró na brónna genitive na bró na mbrónna dative leis an mbró don bhró leis na brónna

Archaic or dialectal declension:

Declension of bró (fifth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative bró bróinte vocative a bhró a bhróinte genitive brón bróinte dative bróin bróinte forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an bhró na bróinte genitive na brón na mbróinte dative leis an mbróin don bhróin leis na bróinte

Mutation

Mutated forms of bró

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bró	bhró	mbró

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “bró”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “bró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 89
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 50
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN